> Subject: Urgent! Action Needed Save the Wolves!! > > URGENT ALERT!!!! STOP THE WAR ON WOLVES!!!! > > The Minnesota DNR has a proposed wolf bill that calls for a > liberal WOLF KILLING policy: even more liberal than the wolf killing bill > that MN House of Representatives passed last year. > > This DNR bill includes a bounty, widespread "predator control" > areas, and allows indiscriminate landowner killing throughout the State. > This bill is expected to get introduced in the Senate then merged with last > year's bad House wolf bill in a conference committee. We also expect that a > terrible bill referred to as a "roundtable bill " may resurface so make sure > to state that you oppose ANY bill that includes the threats listed below. > > YOUR LETTERS AND CALLS ARE NEEDED! > > Please write or call your Minnesota Legislators, Governor > Jesse Ventura, Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt and the U.S. Fish and > Wildlife Service. > > Some of the points you can make include: > > 1. OPPOSE ANY FORM OF WOLF BOUNTY > > The proposal calls for incentive inducing killing contracts by > "certified" trappers. Don't be fooled. This practice, previously called > Directed Predator Control and now called Predator Control Payments, is 21st > Century double-speak for a BOUNTY. It was a BOUNTY that put the wolf on the > endangered species list in the first place. The new DNR bill requires that > "the commissioner shall pay a certified gray wolf predator controller $100 > for each wolf taken." > Demand that no wolf bounty ever be re-established. > > 2. OPPOSE HUNTING AND TRAPPING! > > The House bill already passed includes hunting and trapping. > While the DNR bill suggests a five-year wait before opening a hunting > season, the legislature is likely to shorten the wait. Tell them to oppose > hunting and trapping of wolves now and in the future. There is NO > justification for hunting or trapping of wolves. > > 3. OPPOSE INDISCRIMINATE WOLF KILLING > > The DNR proposal allows landowners to kill wolves for any > perceived threat to their pets or livestock. "Perceived threat" is defined > so broadly that it allows a complete free-for-all killing of wolves > throughout the State of Minnesota. This same liberal taking was included in > the "roundtable bill" and needs to be opposed and CANNOT be supported as an > alternative bill. DEMAND incentives for good husbandry that prevent wolves > from killing livestock, non-lethal, humane control of problem wolves and > public education projects dedicated at breaking the myth of "The Big Bad > Wolf." > > 4. OPPOSE ANY LIBERAL PREDATOR CONTROL POLICY > > The DNR wants to establish an agriculture zone throughout most > of the state where they would be able to keep "predator control areas" open > for a full FIVE YEARS after any verification of wolves killing livestock or > domestic pets. In the "wolf zone" predator control areas can be left open > for 30 days or longer at their discretion. Any wolf that comes within these > one-mile or larger "control areas" can be shot on sight. > > 5. DEMAND a wolf policy based on science that allows for and > respects of the needs for the wolf in its natural state, not a policy based > on the agenda of special interests. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior > has said, "It's time for us to leave the wolves alone and start living in > harmony with them. The future survival of these rare and beautiful creatures > must not be jeopardized by bullets and senseless killings." DEMAND THAT HE > KEEP HIS WORD!!!! > > Residents of Minnesota should call or write their legislators. > Contact information for your senators and representatives can be found > by calling the Minnesota Senate Index at (651) 296-0504, Minnesota General > information at (888) 234-1112, or on the web at > http://www3.pioneerplanet.com/precinct/ > > BOTH OUT-OF-STATE AND MINNESOTA RESIDENTS SHOULD ALSO WRITE: > > The Honorable Governor Jesse Ventura > 130 State Capitol > 75 Constitution Ave > St. Paul MN 55155 > > Donald J. Barry, Assistant Secretary of Fish, Wildlife and Parks > Department of Interior > 1849 C Street NW > Washington, DC 20240 > > and > > Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of Interior > Department of Interior > 1849 C Street NW > Washington, DC 20240 > > "Coalition to Protect Predators." > Dedicated to Wolves, Lynx, Grizzly Bears, other Predators and > their Habitat > > PLEASE SEND A REPLY E-MAIL TO me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO JOIN OR SUPPORT OUR Coalition. Your group > is not obligated in any legal or financial way when joining this > coalition ... by joining you are stating that you support the position > statements and you support the survival of the Great Lake Wolves. If you > have any questions you may also call me at 218-245-3049. For the sake of > Minnesota's wolves we hope > we hear from you.
